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EDWARD P. FOLTZ
The legal fraternity of Stockton and
San Joaquin County is ably represented in Edward P. Foltz, who has taken a
leading part in the public affairs of the city and county for more than
twenty-five years. Mr. Foltz is a native
son, born in Linden, San Joaquin County, December 8, 1870, the son of Samuel J.
and Emma (Bigelow) Foltz, the former a native of Virginia, while the mother was
born in Wisconsin. The father, who is
still living at the age of eighty-four, is one of the county’s worthy pioneers,
having come to California in the early days of 1854, following the trade of a
blacksmith up to the time of his retirement from active business. He now resides in Stockton, the mother being
deceased. He can recall with interest
many of the happenings of that early period, when land sold for $2.50 per acre
and the present day development was not thought of.
Edward P. Foltz attended the Linden
district school and then taught school there for a year. Entering the University of California, he
graduated from that institution with the Ph. B. degree in 1894 and then taught
school at Linden for a year. He then
began his professional course at Hastings Law School at San Francisco, a
department of the University of California, graduating in 1897 with the degree
of LL.B., and in the same year he was admitted to the bar. Not long after this he opened up his office
in Stockton for the practice of law and since that time he has been closely
identified with the legal, political and public life of the community. He served for a term as referee in
bankruptcy, and for four years was chairman of the Republican County Central
Committee. His exceptional ability as a
lawyer being recognized, Mr. Foltz was elected district attorney of San Joaquin
County in January, 1911, being re-elected and occupying this responsible post
until January, 1919. During his official
career, with the assistance of able deputies, he established a record that
would be difficult to duplicate. At present
he is a member of the firm of Foltz, Rendon & Wallace, with offices in the
Wilhoit Building.
During the World War, Mr. Foltz took
an active and prominent part in all the war work, and was chairman of the San
Joaquin branch of the State Council of Defense, and even after the armistice he
continued to serve as chairman of the county readjustment committee, handling
the many post-war problems that came up.
In fraternal circles Mr. Foltz is popular in the ranks of the Elks and
the Woodmen of the World, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the
San Joaquin County Bar Association.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1163. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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